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A data index and query language over Markdown files, for https://obsidian.md/.

19 mentions on Hacker News by 18 people: 1 story, 18 comments · first 2021-07-12 · latest 2025-08-20

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  1. The popular Obsidian Dataview plugin enables that and much more (instead of using Bases) https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
    comment by bluechar · 2025-08-20 · in Obsidian Bases
  2. …CVS and they plan to properly support Obsidian Publish which was never supported in Dataview. [0]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview , I was a big fan but it seems the author has stopped actively developing it at some point…
    comment by lordfrikk · 2025-05-22 · in Obsidian Bases
  3. …both in the markdown frontmatter or in the text and query it via very popular plugins: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview There are tons of community plugins that support all kind of stuff: tasks, kanban, LLM/Copilot, graph…
    comment by rlupi · 2024-12-26 · in Siyuan: Privacy-first, self-hosted personal knowledge management software
  4. Looks great! Reminds me Obsidian DataView but with charts https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview This whole ideas to have data, visualisations and knowledge base in one private offline place is very appealing
    comment by adeptima · 2024-02-26 · in Apache Superset
  5. …for example), and I also pull in a list of holidays from gov.uk, so they are also populated. [^1]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview [^2]: https://github.com/alister/alister-tools/blob/main/.todo.cro...
    comment by abulman · 2024-02-19 · in My productivity app is a never-ending .txt file (2020)
  6. …but markdown is similar closed for anyone not understanding filesystems and editors. > This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me Good for you, but that is very low level in terms of data-handling.…
    comment by PurpleRamen · 2023-12-22 · in A structured note-taking app for personal use
  7. …mean by that) by separating that in their DB, it's a big NO for me since it's a closed silo. This: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview works so wonderful for me, and it never breaks anything in my simple md files. > Most…
    comment by Ringz · 2023-12-22 · in A structured note-taking app for personal use
  8. …linking and a great ecosystem of third party plugins. One of the most popular plugins is https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview which lets you treat your notes as databases and query them to form tables. The creator has been…
    comment by probablynish · 2023-06-16 · in Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor
  9. …but I primarily just look at a local graph with a maximum depth of 2-3 to quickly hop around. [1] https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview [2] https://help.obsidian.md/Editing+and+formatting/Tags Edit: Formatting is horrible on…
    comment by protortyp · 2023-04-25 · in People who use Notion to plan their whole lives
  10. …make your own plugin to fix that, it sounds like a pretty minimal plugin after you have dataview. https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-sample-plug…
    comment by Martinussen · 2022-11-02 · in Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software
  11. …generating more easily exportable formats for things that need stuff like CSV/Spreadsheets: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview For structured entry of text ("forms") so that you can reliably track stuff using DataView, I…
    comment by techdragon · 2022-10-18 · in What do you use for knowledge management?
  12. …visualisations are available from the combination of https://github.com/zsviczian/excalibrain , https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview and https://github.com/zsviczian/obsidian-excalidraw-plugin ... in short query your notes and…
    comment by techdragon · 2022-10-15 · in Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app
  13. …visualise these via a DAG with the in-built graph view and extend from there with extensions like https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview if you need. The tool can be as simple or complex as your project requires.
    comment by kimburgess · 2022-06-11 · in What do you use to design a new piece of software?
  14. …Logseq routines commits your files for you). [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30747131 [2] https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview [3] https://logseq.com/ [4] https://logseq.github.io/#/page/Queries [Edited for formatting]
    comment by raju · 2022-03-20 · in Plaintext Productivity
  15. …- [1] https://joplinapp.org/ - [2] https://obsidian.md/ - [3] https://logseq.com/ - [4] https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/ - [5] https://github.com/coddingtonbear/obsidian-itinerary - [6]…
    comment by ydant · 2022-02-23 · in Show HN: Supernotes 2 – a fast, Markdown notes app for journalling and sharing
  16. …Auto Link Title: https://github.com/zolrath/obsidian-auto-link-title For even more fun: - DataView: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview
    comment by dmarble · 2022-01-27 · in Zim – A Desktop Wiki
  17. …mention some community plugins that extend it even further: - Query your notes into tables/lists: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview - Templates with variables: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater - QuickAdd:…
    comment by input_sh · 2021-10-17 · in Obsidian – A knowledge base from a local folder of plain text Markdown files
  18. …ps://github.com/liamcain/obsidian-calendar-plugin [3]: https://github.com/SilentVoid13/Templater [4]: https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview [5]: https://github.com/renehernandez/obsidian-readwise --------- We have a vibrant…
    comment by ericax · 2021-07-12 · in Show HN: Obsidian for Mobile – Plain-text knowledge base on the go